Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:29:27 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Bahman Kahinpour <bahman.linux@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make FreeBSD read the slice table and partition table again Message-ID: <AANLkTimkSqJOcE_-C9qQaPSbQo695RgOUghoKtsVqtSf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik4_L9LWP5Kt2Xg8N%2Be2t7CR15eORS9fNFC65oA@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTik4_L9LWP5Kt2Xg8N%2Be2t7CR15eORS9fNFC65oA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Bahman Kahinpour <bahman.linux@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello > When I destroy the partition table with the following command: > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=1k count=10 > The entries /dev/ad1s1a, ... still exist in /dev. This means that the > kernel has not found out that the slices and partitions do not exist > anymore. > Um AFAIK, GEOM tastes the provider on closing so that command should have updated the device entries. And it works properly in VM here so I'm unsure the problem you are having. A "true > /dev/ad1" would also cause GEOM to retaste it. -- Adam Vande More
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